In honor of America's 250th birthday, I thought I would list my 10 favorite books about the American Revolution, and the imperfect yet resolute men and women who fought and sacrificed so much for our liberty and freedom. I think it's important to remember them, especially this year. And these books are great; I loved and would recommend them all.
Plain, Honest Men: The Making of the American Constitution by Richard Beeman
John Hancock: Merchant King and American Patriot by Harlow Giles Unger
American Spring by Walter R. Borneman
(About Lexington and Concord, Bunker Hill and the spring of 1775 where it all began.)
Band of Giants by Jack Kelly
(About the amateur soldiers like Henry Knox, Nathanael Greene, Daniel Morgan, and others who helped gain American's independence.)
1776 by David McCullough
The Swamp Fox by John Oller
(About Marion Francis and the Revolutionary battles fought in South Carolina)
Valley Forge by Bob Drury and Tom Clavin
(Where the Continental Army was forged in fire.)
Those Turbulent Sons of Freedom by Christopher S. Wren
(About Ethan Allen, Seth Warner and the Greene Mountain Boys.)
Rebels at Sea by Eric Jay Dolin
(About the role privateers played in securing American's independence.)
In the Hurricane's Eye by Nathaniel Philbrick
(About the genius of George Washington and the Siege at Yorktown.)
Happy Reading...
And Happy 250th, America!
(Land that I love so much.)
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